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Old 02-28-10 | 07:32 AM
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I subscribe to Vintage Bike Quarterly, they call it bike quarterly now. It's good.

I subscribe to Bicycling. Not sure about this year, but in the past it's been fun.

I buy the Australian Ride magazine at Borders. Very expensive, but they have some good
issues. This one is mostly racing, which doesn't interest me. If it hadn't been the dead of winter, I would
have passed. They do good bike reviews.

I like to flip though anything when I'm waiting at the bike shop.

Most everything has their strengths and weaknesses. Over the years Bicycling has
had a few terrific articles. One helped me get back on the bike (The Best Training Plan....Period, Feb 94, pg 69)

Oh, what I took away from the VBQ tire rolling tests is that suppleness makes a big difference in
rolling resistance. Stiff tires waste energy. Of course, you pay for that suppleness when you run over a sharp object.
A lot of guys here get wrapped in the minutae of size and weight. A larger tire can roll well. I think quite a few would
be surprised how well because even a supple tire grows stiffer as the PSI goes up...

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